{"id":263,"date":"2003-12-13T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=263"},"modified":"2008-08-25T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T20:20:36","slug":"the-politics-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Politics of War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/karp.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4029\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=4029\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/karp.jpg?fit=130%2C117\" data-orig-size=\"130,117\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"karp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/karp.jpg?fit=130%2C117\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/karp.jpg?fit=130%2C117\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/karp.jpg?resize=130%2C117\" alt=\"\" title=\"karp\" width=\"130\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4029\" \/><\/a>The late journalist Walter Karp, author of the &#8216;The Politics of War&#8217; a history of the years 1890-1920 is seen in this undated file photo. The period witnessed the outbreak of the Spanish-American War under Republican William McKinley and America&#8217;s emergence from World War One under Democrat Woodrow Wilson. But for Karp, a chain-smoking journalist with a passion for politics, the era not only saw America&#8217;s metamorphosis from humble republic to world power. It also marked the defeat of what he termed the last great struggle to maintain a U.S. republic &#8216;free of oligarchy, monopoly and private power.&#8217; With U.S. troops now in Iraq (<a href=\"http:\/\/search.news.yahoo.com\/search\/news\/?p=%22Iraq%22&#038;c=&#038;n=20&#038;yn=c&#038;c=news&#038;cs=nw\">news<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/bin\/search?cs=nw&#038;p=Iraq\">web sites<\/a>) and Afghanistan (<a href=\"http:\/\/s5.news.dcn.yahoo.com\/search\/news\/?p=%22Afghanistan%22&#038;c=&#038;n=20&#038;yn=c&#038;c=news&#038;cs=nw\">news<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/bin\/search?cs=nw&#038;p=Afghanistan\">web sites<\/a>), and pundits comparing President Bush (<a href=\"http:\/\/search.news.yahoo.com\/search\/news\/?p=%22President%20Bush%22&#038;c=&#038;n=20&#038;yn=c&#038;c=news&#038;cs=nw\">news<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search\/search?p=George+W.+Bush\">web sites<\/a>) to McKinley and Wilson, Karp&#8217;s former colleagues have published a new paperback edition of &#8216;The Politics of War&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moyerbellbooks.com\/franklin.html\">Franklin Square Press<\/a>) as a jaundiced guide to America&#8217;s current political debate. (<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/031211\/photos_lf\/mdf423811&#038;e=1&#038;ncid=1007\">Karp Family\/Reuters<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Old Cause<\/em><br \/>\nby Joseph R. Stromberg<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anitwar.com\">Antiwar.com <\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 31, 2000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/stromberg\/pf\/p-s013100.html\"><b>Walter Karp (1934-1989): War Critic and Republican Theorist<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006090769X\/antiwarbookstore\/\">The Politics of War<\/a> available at Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late journalist Walter Karp, author of the &#8216;The Politics of War&#8217; a history of the years 1890-1920 is seen in this undated file photo. The period witnessed the outbreak of the Spanish-American War under Republican William McKinley and America&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}